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Focus on Statistics

Employment Dynamics: BLS and Census Bureau Use Administrative Records to Provide New Data

by Robert P. Parker

Robert Parker is a consultant on federal statistics and former chief statistician of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

A look at the Business Employment Dynamics (BED) program at the Bureau of Labor statistics; and Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) of the Census Bureau.

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